Succotash Shut-In

Succotash Clips Epi156: Boozin' with Bill is Back!

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

It's just me, Marc Hershon. Your
host and Kentucky Blue Grass for Epi156 of Succotash, the
Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. We’re back with another
installment of Succotash Clips, where we feature some
comedy snippets from the width, length AND depth of the
internet.

Our associate producer
Tyson Saner and I combined forces to pull down
samples from the following shows for this week’s selections:
And God Created Podcast, Gone Riffin’,In
Poor Taste, Juice In The Morning, Podcast For
Laundry, Live from the Poundstone Institute, and
Your Mom’s House.

In addition, we not only have a
double dose of our Burst O’ Durst with political comedian
and social commentator Will
Durst, but also a BONUS Durst bit – the opening
segment from his new one man show in San Francisco, Durst Case Scenario.

(Durst's cover note:
"Here's a short clip from my new show. The clip is
about 4 minutes, but the performance is about 85 minutes long. Me
and my trusty overhead projector. It mocks and scoffs and taunts,
but with taste. And be warned: not very
bipartisan. I'm playing by his rules
now." — Will Durst)

And, for the first time in what
seems like forever, we bring back the segment featuring out own
Bill Heywatt, none other than Boozin’ With
Bill! Yep. Bill and I belly up to the Studio P wetbar and he’s
gonna whip up one of his oddcoctions.

This week’s episode, as always,
is brought to you by our friends at Henderson’s Pants.

BECOME A SOUNDCAST
PRODUCER

We’ve officially kicked off out
own Patreon page, since the selling of commercials hasn’t been
going so well. So this is your chance to help us out by
contributing to things like the production and hosting costs for
this show. You, essentially, get to become an adjunct producer of
this show for just a buck a month. Just click over to http://Patreon.com/Succotash and
kick into the kitty. I’m not asking for a lot. Yet. Mainly because
I’m still figuring out how the damn thing works. At some point, if
people start popping in there, I’ll start pulling together some
exclusive content, special interviews, and some other treats I
haven’t even dreamed up yet.

THE CLIPS

Live From The Poundstone
InstituteWe
start with a bit of a brand new soundcast from an old friend of
mine. This comes from Epi1 of Live from the Poundstone
Institute, hosted by comedian Paula
Poundstone. She’s appeared a lot on A Prairie Home
Companion and NPR’s Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, but now
she’s got her own show for NPR. I recently reviewed it for
Splitsider.com and it’s a pretty entertaining romp in front of
a live studio audience. It’s pretty short – the debut episode runs
just a smidge over a half hour – and she crams in a bunch of short
visits from smart people like scientists and professors as well as
celebrities. In this clip, she’s going deep on the sexual
proclivities of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Juice In The
MorningOur
next offering is from our Associate Producer Tyson Saner’s fresh
crop of soundcast clips. It’s from Juice in the Morning.
The host is Justin “Juice” Kelly and on the
homesite for this show he says, “I do this show as a hobby but
maybe one day it will be more than that!” He’s got more than 60
episodes under his belt at this point, so he’s well on his way.
This clip is from Episode 65 and Juice is talking to frequent guest
Thomas Smith, who may also be the show’s producer
from what Tyson could find out.

Podcast for
LaundryThere’s another brand newish soundcast – just a
few episodes in – called Podcast for Laundry — I am
beginning to think my campaign to change the term podcast to
soundcast is maybe not catching on as fast as I was hoping but I’m
going to keep on it mainly because I think it annoys people — but
Podcast for Laundry is a show hosted by comedian
Brett Davis on the Forever Dog Network. Brett is a
winner of the Andy Kaufman Award and, like Andy, Brett often
performs as one of a number of characters he’s created. This
podcast is a great example. It is recorded in a laundromat and the
guests don’t seem to be very happy to be there. His first guest is
Tom Sharpling, host of The Best Show, and
he’s got some unpleasant feedback for Brett.

And God Created
PodcastSoundcasting continues to get more and more
“niche-y”. Not Nietzsche, although that
may be true as well. And it’s making for really interesting
content, which is good. The medium can probably only sustain so
many pop culture-oriented shows with a bunch of dudes shouting at
each other. Tyson scooped up a clip’s worth of a new entry called
And God Created Podcast. So new that there’s only one
episode up on SoundCloud so far. It features Stephen
Peltier, Cassandra Cardenes,
Erika Curry and Mickey Broussard,
and although the hosts seem to have religion in their childhoods,
they’re not really into it as adults. They’ve decided to revisit
the stories in the Bible without religious bashing but really just
checking out the stories as stories.

In Poor
TasteWe got
a clip submission from Eric Driscoll and
Sean Kendle, hosts of the In Poor Taste
soundcast, who used our direct upload link through
Hightail.com. Full disclosure, I had a DM interchange with Sean on
Twitter last week about a bunch of stuff and one thing was this
clip. Even though we ask that the clips run 3 to 5 minutes – and
believe me, five minutes can be a LONG time in Soundcastland – he
said the best they could do was 6 minutes. Well, gents, after
listening to it I thought of a couple of cuts to make everything
flow a little smoother. Apologies to your comedy timing
sensibilities if this cut pisses you off, but know that I did it
with the best of intentions. Total running time: 3 minutes and 52
seconds.

Your Mom's
HouseWe have
a clip from a show that been around for awhile, over 400 episodes
to be exact. And although we clipped the solo soundcast from one of
the co-hosts back in Succotash Epi149 (the That’s Deep
Bro show hosted by comic Christina
Pazsitzky), this is the first chance we’ve had to clip
Your Mom’s House with Christina and her husband, comedian
Tom Segura. (Tom also host HIS own soundcast,
called Charge It To The Game.) Now we finally get to play
a snippet from Your Mom’s House, from recent Epi403 with
no guest, just Tom and Christina, talking about being sick and the
danger of golf carts.

Gone
Riffin'We
wrap up the clip portion of this epi with one that Tyson grabbed us
from another newbiecast called Gone Riffin’ on the Feral
Audio Network. Hosted by Rich Fulcher and
Abed Geith, they’re about seven 'sodes in and the
clip we have is from Epi2. You may recognize Abed as “The Real
Abed” from the Harmontown soundcast and Rich is a
comedian, writer, and improvisor, whose been on Snuff Box,
Drunk History, and The Mighty Boosh.

THE SAUSALITO NOUVEAU

OTHER STUFF

We’ve officially kicked off out
own Patreon page, since the selling of commercials hasn’t been
going so well. So this is your chance to help us out by
contributing to things like the production and hosting costs for
this show. Just click over to http://Patreon.com/Succotash and
kick into the kitty. I’m not asking for a lot. Yet. Mainly because
I’m still figuring out how the damn thing works. At some point, if
people start popping in there, I’ll start pulling together some
exclusive content, special interviews, and some other treats I
haven’t even dreamed up yet.

Also, check out the Laughable app from our buddy Ned
Kenney. Have you snagged the app yet? This thing is first
rate for finding, subscribing and streaming or downloading the
funny. It’s got a great search algorithm, so you can find your
favorite comedians on all the soundcasts they’ve guested on, too.
It really is a great soundcast companion to have on your smartphone
so go to laughable.com or just download it from the App Store for
iOS. I’m told there’s an Android version coming soon.

That’s gonna do it. Next time
it’s a Succotash Chats installment with our old
friend-of-the-show and returning guest Jordan
Brady on the eve of the release of his movie, I Am
Battle Comic. But until then, thanks for passing the
Succotash.